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strength, like a tree planted by the river of waters, whose leaf will be
always green, and whose fruit will appear in due time.
Your neglect to attend the public worship of God is a serious error.
The privileges of divine service will be as beneficial to you as to others
and are fully as essential. You may be unable to avail yourself of
these privileges as often as do many others. You will frequently be
called, upon the Sabbath, to visit the sick, and may be obliged to make
it a day of exhausting labor. Such labor to relieve the suffering was
pronounced by our Saviour a work of mercy and no violation of the
Sabbath. But when you regularly devote your Sabbaths to writing or
labor, making no special change, you harm your own soul, give to
others an example that is not worthy of imitation, and do not honor
God.
You have failed to see the real importance, not only of attending
religious meetings, but also of bearing testimony for Christ and the
truth. If you do not obtain spiritual strength by the faithful performance
of every Christian duty, thus coming into a closer and more sacred
relation to your Redeemer, you will become weak in moral power.
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